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  The Letter to Dad - A Conversion...

  Andrew Emmans

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  This short book tells the simple story of a conversion from the Protestant religion to the Catholic Church. A heartfelt letter from a son to his father, it documents the providence and mercy of God in the wayfaring course of one man, and one family, as they make the long journey to their true home.  
  "...Thou hast yet a great way to go." 
  1 Kings, 19:7

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  Paranoia: A Journey Into Extreme...

  Daniel Freeman

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  'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK’ JOHN HUMPHRYS 
  'FASCINATING… SHOCKING' SPECTATOR 
  What is paranoia? What makes us mistrustful? How can this be overcome? 
  Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years at the vanguard of paranoia research and treatment. This remarkable and moving book tells the story of that journey. 
  For decades, conventional wisdom held that paranoia was only experienced by people with severe mental health problems and little could be done to rectify its disastrous effects. Paranoia gives us a front row seat as Freeman turns the traditional view on its head. 
  He develops life-changing treatments for clinical paranoia – often using state-of-the-art technology like virtual reality. He reveals that suspicion is rife in society, with paranoia widespread, conspiracy theories rampant and emotion all too often trumping evidence. He discovers the causes of mistrust, including the role of genes, trauma, lack of sleep, worry, low self-confidence, cannabis use and hearing voices, and delves into the murky world of Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Lighting up the narrative throughout are the rarely heard voices of people whose lives have been almost wrecked by paranoia – and then in many cases transformed by Freeman’s groundbreaking treatments. 
  This is also a practical book. Freeman shows how we can measure our own levels of mistrust. He explains how we can remedy things if those levels are higher than we’d like, because although mistrust can seem engrained, things can change for the better. Ultimately, it can be overcome. Compelling and compassionate, this is a gripping tale from the front line of suspicion – an impassioned plea for the urgent rebuilding of trust between us all. 
  Daniel Freeman's Paranoia is a compelling mix of autobiography, neuroscience, and social science. It offers a deep understanding of paranoia, its medical implications, and the anxieties and phobias it can cause, providing self-help strategies for patients. 
  For fans of Lucy Johnstone (Users and Abusers of Psychiatry), Esmé Weijun Wang (The Collected Schizophrenias), Irvin D. Yalom (Hour of the Heart), Dr Joseph Jebelli (The Brain at Rest), and Paul Gilbert (CFT Made Simple). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  The 50 Greatest Architects - The...

  Ike Ijeh

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  Award-winning architecture writer Ike Ijeh introduces 50 of the world's most influential architects and a selection of their most celebrated buildings, showcased with full-colour photography. 
   
  The 50 architects selected here have designed buildings that are as dramatic as their impact on the world of architecture. From Zaha Hadid to Nicholas Hawksmoor, architect and journalist Ike Ijeh reveals his top 50 list of the architects deserving of the description 'greatest'.

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  Serious Pleasures: The Life of...

  Philip Hoare

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  A new reissue of Philip Hoare's singular biography of Stephen Tennant. 
  ‘Witty and amazing … both scholarly and hilarious at the same time’ John Waters, New York Times 
  Philip Hoare’s fascinating profile of Britain’s most legendary and flamboyant aristocratic aesthete. With unparalleled insight into Tennant’s bizarre and outrageously eccentric life, Hoare presents a superb biography that reflects an age of intellect, indolence, narcissism and pure style. 
  For fans of Julia Rothman (How We Got By), Seán Hewitt (All Down Darkness Wide), Oliver Soden (Jeoffry), Robert Macfarlane (Desert Solitaire), and Matthew Green (The Wizard Of The Nile).

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  99 Bottles - A Black Sheep's...

  André Hueston Mack

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  99 Bottles is a highly opinionated wine guide from one of the country’s most celebrated—and unorthodox—sommeliers and winemakers. 
    
  In this entertaining, informative, and thoroughly unconventional wine guide, award-winning sommelier, winemaker, and wine educator André Hueston Mack presents readers with the 99 bottles that have most impacted his life. Instead of just pairing wines with foods, Mack pairs practical information with personal stories, offering up recommendations alongside reflections on being one of the only African Americans to ever work at the top level of the American wine industry. 
    
  The 99 bottles range from highly accessible commercial wines to the most rarefied Bordeaux on the wine list at The French Laundry, and each bottle offers readers something to learn about wine. This window into Mack’s life combines a maverick’s perspective on the wine industry with an insider’s advice on navigating wine lists, purchasing wine, and drinking more diverse and interesting selections at home. 99 Bottles is a one-of-a-kind exploration of wine culture today from a true trailblazer.

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  Unbutchered Dehumanising a...

  Dr Luke Gordon

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  One of the last of the baby boomers, Dr Luke Gordon was born in the mining town of Boksburg, South Africa, to Catholic parents. He grew up the fourth of five children in a middle-class neighbourhood, raised in large part by his beloved nanny Sarah, who became a surrogate mother to him. His father was a teacher; his mother a typist who worked to help make ends meet. They were not wealthy, but they were determined — scraping and saving to ensure their children could earn university degrees and build better lives than their own. 
  As a small boy, Luke was inspired by the family GP — a caring, kind Jewish doctor who still made house calls. When he was sick, the doctor would arrive with his black bag and, as if by magic, a bottle of cough syrup and some antibiotics would set things right. That simple act of healing planted a seed that would shape the next four decades of his life. 
  In this, the first book of his serialised memoir, Gordon chronicles his years at medical school, his surgical training, and his eventual return to the East Rand community where he grew up — where his plastic and reconstructive surgery practice quickly flourished. 
  Then, one afternoon in 2004, he has a seemingly minor professional disagreement with a cantankerous colleague. A trivial tiff. Barely worth remembering. 
  He thinks nothing more of it. 
  Ten years later, standing in a late-night garage forecourt staring at a newspaper headline that calls him THE BUTCHER, he finally understands what that afternoon cost him — and what had been quietly set in motion ever since. 
  UNBUTCHERED: Dehumanising a Plastic Surgeon is the opening chapter of a forensic, decade-long reckoning with institutional corruption, weaponised regulation, and the systematic destruction of a professional career.

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